New kids in town : oral histories of immigrant teens
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Teenage immigrants from various countries recount the emotional experience of fleeing their homelands and adjusting to a new life in the United States.
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- 078073004508
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- 126 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- Scholastic biography
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- 920 BOD
Leon's story
I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness. But in those days they didn't call you "black." They didnt say "minority." They called us "colo…
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- 0439283191
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- 107 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 920 TIL
Dear Dr. Bell..... your friend, Helen Keller
Helen Keller was only six years old when she met Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. The meeting was an eventful one,marking the beginning of a lifelong friendship. It was Bel…
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- 0590486780
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- 95 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 920 KEL
Sojourner Truth
This unique biography of Sojourner Truth tells the exciting story of her life using personal recollections, as well as letters and articles written by those who knew her. "I am pleading for the …
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- 0439263239
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- 128 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- In Their Own Words
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- 920 TRU
Diving with Dolphins
As with all WILD LIVES titles, the book will take the form of a diary and contain an exciting combination of action, humour and lots of animal facts. DIVING WITH DOLPHINS is set in Shark Bay, Weste…
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- 043968949X
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- 128 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- Wild Lives
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- 920 ARN
Sew what, Betsy Ross?
A biography of Betsy Ross as a girl, before she ran her own upholstery shop and made American flags.
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- 0439439256
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- 57 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- Before I Made History
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- 923 ROS
Thomas Edison : the wizard inventor
More than any other individual, Edison was responsible for introducing the modern age of electricity. But as well as pioneering the first commercial electric light and power system, he also invente…
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- 0199101957
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- 31 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
- Series Title
- What's Their Story?
- Call Number
- 926 EDI
Louis Braille
The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.
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- 0850786266
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- 32 pages : illustration : 23 cm
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- 920 BRA
Hana's suitcase : a true story
From the foreword by Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu: "How extraordinary that this humble suitcase has enabled children all over the world to learn through Hana's story the terrible history o…
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- 0439851238
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- 111 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- 920 LEV
Orphan train rider : one boy's true story
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In rec…
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- 0590115278
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- 80 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- 920 WAR
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